[12IF Duty to seek clinical advice on staffing]
National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (1978 c 29) | Legislation

[12IF  Duty to seek clinical advice on staffing]

[(1)     It is the duty of every Health Board and the Agency to put and keep in place arrangements for—

(a)     seeking and having regard to appropriate clinical advice in making decisions and putting in place arrangements in relation to staffing under sections 12IA to 12IE and 12IH to 12IL,

(b)     recording and explaining decisions which conflict with that advice.

(2)     The arrangements under subsection (1) must, in particular, include—

(a)     where a Health Board

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